Casa Del Marqués De Premio Real
Colonial-era mansion on a former customs square, now a working hotel and restaurant school.
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Casa del Marques de Premio Real in Cartagena asks how a fortune built partly on the slave trade turned into a royal title. It follows Domingo de Miranda y Llanos, a Spanish knight from Gijon who rose through colonial commerce until the Spanish crown itself owed him a large, standing debt. The guide traces what the crown did in response, and where Miranda's life on this square ended. Look up at the wooden balconies and the staircase built by hands history never named.
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